I put a Kill-a-Watt meter on it and measured it. During boot-up, it
spiked around 58 watts. After settling down at boot, it seems to run
consistently at 32-34 watts. Processor utilization rarely exceeds 6%. I
run different firewall software but am running a web proxy with AV,
snort, intermittent site-to-site VPNs when I need to connect to client
sites for troubleshooting, SSL and L2TP remote access protocols.
I did have a problem with the on-board Intel NIC - could not handle
heavy packet loads and would stop responding. Never figured out if it
was a hardware problem or software problem with that particular model
(Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network Connection) as opposed to the
dual port cards (Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller)
which have been working well.
In my case, I am willing to accept the power utilization for the
flexibility to load just about any of the open source firewalls onto it.
On 8/3/2016 8:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Am 2016-08-03 17:15, schrieb Robert Obrinsky:
I am currently using a refurb HP Elite 8200 SFF that I bought through
Newegg. I removed the video card so I could use the built-in video and
added 2 dual port HP gigabit NICs (Intels in reality) from Amazon. It
came with 4 GB RAM, 500 GB hard drive, and Core I-5 processor at 3.3
GHz. Very quiet. Upgraded the RAM to 8 GB.
How much energy does that thing consume then?
Because it runs all year 24x7, for years sometimes, it can make a huge
difference buying a smaller and less power-hungry device.
AFAIK, the SG-devices are quite frugal in that respect.
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